Sir John Tempest, 1st Baronet

The 12 September 1666, Sir John Tempest of Tonge in the county of York Baronet aet 21 entered his pedigree at the Visitation of Yorkshire, and the Herald Dugdale allowed him the following arms - Quarterly of eight, 1. argent a bend be¬tween six martlets, sable, a crescent for difference. II ... a bend ermine., III Ermine, five fusils in fesse... iv . . . an inescutcheon within an orle of martlets... v . . . a fox's head erased between three bugle horns ....vj.... a bend cotised between six martlets . . . vii. . . . two lions passant in pale ...viii . . . on a bend .... 3 owls. Crest, a griffin's head erased . . . a crescent for difference (Dugdale's Visita: of Yorks, Surtees Soc: vol. 36, p.319). The coats represent I. Tempest, II. Rye, gu: a bend ermine, III. Hebden, 5 fusils in fesse gu: iv. Bolling, sab: In inescutcheon ermine, within an orle of martlets argt, v. Bradford, argt. a wolf’s or fox's head erased between 3 bugle horns stringed, sab: To this coat the Tempest's of Tong had no right, as they did not descend from a Bradford heiress as the Tempests of Bracewell and Bolling did, vi. evidently for Tonge, azure a bend cotised between 6 martlets or, vii. Mirfeld, Vert. 2 lions passant in pale argt, viii. Savile, argt on a bend Sa. 3 owls of the field. The right to this last quarter depends whether Thomas Savile's son named 1601 o.s.p. (E.B.T.).